We're now on a five year cycle from the last film in the previous series to the reboot. If my calculations are correct, we could see the reboot happening concurrent with the film being rebooted within our lifetimes.

We're now on a five year cycle from the last film in the previous series to the reboot. If my calculations are correct, we could see the reboot happening concurrent with the film being rebooted within our lifetimes.

If he keeps the same realistic, brutal feeling he created for Chronicle and puts it in FF, I am in. I was shocked at how good Chronicle was. Expected it too be another groan worthy, so bad it's good found footage sci-fi/fantasy movie. Instead, I had my heart broken by Andrew, (I'm sorry. I mean, AAAAANNNNDDDDRRREEEWWW!) and wanting a sequel where him and Steve come back. I don't know how but, dammit, I want them back.

Maybe the problem isn't with the director or script or anything like that...maybe it's just that the Fantastic Four suck. Honestly, they aren't particularly sympathetic characters. Reed Richard is a dick who puts his friends in danger (for SCIENCE!), Sue Storm is a woman who is clearly a co-dependent who can't see that Reed would rather stroke his new invention than her, Johnny Storm is that guy at parties everyone tries to avoid because they know at some point he's going to take his pants off and dry hump the furniture, and Ben Grimm is a sad sack loser who hangs around with rich folks to make him feel better about himself, basically a teabagger wannabe. Compared to Marvel's other properties, the FF have about as much personality as a cardboard box.

The only interesting character is Dr. Doom. In fact, you could just make a Dr. Doom film and be done with it. That would be more entertaining.

We're now on a five year cycle from the last film in the previous series to the reboot. If my calculations are correct, we could see the reboot happening concurrent with the film being rebooted within our lifetimes.

I'm waiting for the re-reboot to precede the reboot. That will definitely signify "the future" to me.

My favorite take on the FF is Robert Kirkman's Marvel Zombies, where Reed Richards just says fark it, zombie superhero is the way to go, and then like infects a million multiverses to devour braaaaiiins.

Dr. Whoof:Maybe the problem isn't with the director or script or anything like that...maybe it's just that the Fantastic Four suck. Honestly, they aren't particularly sympathetic characters. Reed Richard is a dick who puts his friends in danger (for SCIENCE!), Sue Storm is a woman who is clearly a co-dependent who can't see that Reed would rather stroke his new invention than her, Johnny Storm is that guy at parties everyone tries to avoid because they know at some point he's going to take his pants off and dry hump the furniture, and Ben Grimm is a sad sack loser who hangs around with rich folks to make him feel better about himself, basically a teabagger wannabe. Compared to Marvel's other properties, the FF have about as much personality as a cardboard box.

The only interesting character is Dr. Doom. In fact, you could just make a Dr. Doom film and be done with it. That would be more entertaining.

I'd like to see Namor if the rights aren't elsewhere The Inhumans are probably too complicated. The Mole Man could be good but Wallace Shawn doesn't seem very menacing. Puppet Master? Dragon Man? Kurrgo?

Fark, Disney, pony up the cash so these morons don't hurt your product. They'll probably mess it up, and plastering Marvel in front of the opening is going to make you look bad. Then, you can make an Iron Man/Dr. Doom movie, and the Hulk can fight the Thing.

Dwight_Yeast:I'm guessing that like the Superman and Spiderman reboots it's all about keeping the rights from reverting?

All DC film/TV properties are handled by Warner Bros. Unlike Marvel, who sold rights to different properties to different studios and then changed their minds and opened their own studio, DC did the umbrella approach, with DC and WB working together, which has been hit or miss. Batman = hit, GL/Superman = miss.

Serial:Dwight_Yeast: I'm guessing that like the Superman and Spiderman reboots it's all about keeping the rights from reverting?

All DC film/TV properties are handled by Warner Bros. Unlike Marvel, who sold rights to different properties to different studios and then changed their minds and opened their own studio, DC did the umbrella approach, with DC and WB working together, which has been hit or miss. Batman = hit, GL/Superman = miss.

There's an old clause where the film rights to Superman go back to the families of Shuster and Siegel if they don't make a film every so often. I think the timeline is much more forgiving than Marvel's deals w/ Sony and Fox, though.